TedT
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Assuming thrive is a typo for strive, most Christian theology suggests that good works, ie achieving a full expression of the golden rule in your life, is NOT adequate for redemption from sin without faith in Christ's death and resurrection.1. Does this mean a Hindu, Buddhist, wrong Christian beliefs, or other, are then being sent to hell by YHWH, even though they thrive to follow the golden rule?
The passport to heaven is faith, not the works of a sinner no matter how good they may seem to be on earth because the sinner was fundamentally changed in his heart to be corrupt by his first choice to sin and good works can only be a gloss over that corruption when what is needed is a rebirth of the person out of sin by faith in Christ.
Answered already. In their sinfulness they were subconsciously, at best, trying to keep me in my sins to keep the postponement of the judgement day continuing and at worst, trying to take me to hell with them...2. And if so, and if any of these folks were your close friends and/or family, you would not be sad or miss them when you are in Heaven, and you know they are burning in hell eternally?
I'll see how I feel about them once i get there.
As I have said, (though it bears repeating), those damned chose by their free will to repudiate YHWH as their GOD for being a liar and a false god, rejecting HIS definition of good and evil. They also repudiated the Son as the only source of salvation from evil thus denying GOD any interference with this free will, ie, sacrosanct decision.3. You can avoid sin now, since you already know sin is against God's nature. Thus, how are you going to do any better, when in Heaven? Seems as though God would need to change you, before you enter Heaven. And if He needs to change you, just allow everyone into Heaven; since He must change anyone anyways?
Their repudiation of HIM put themselves outside of HIS grace and mercy for ever which they chose because they were so certain that HE was a charlatan, a fake with no power to reward good nor to punish evil but his religion was just trying to manipulate a false worship to sooth feelings of inadequacy... Alas for them, HE then proved HIS Deity and power by the creation of the physical universe before their eyes.
The elect who chose to rebel against HIM first made sure that they were safe from hell by accepting HIM as GOD until proven wrong, and only then rebelling against HIS first command of judgement against the those condemned already. The reprobate scorned these elect for this ploy to be safe from hell as an inadequate response against such absolute evil as the false claim to be our GOD that would taint them forever when YHWH was exposed as a liar and, as the first liar, the most evil person in creation.
To accept HIM until proven wrong is a vastly different stance from rejecting HIM until proof they are wrong, eh? One is workable for GOD who can bring the elect sinner back to this first niggle of faith and the other is unworkable because their free will rejection of HIM was sacrosanct and without HIM they are eternally evil, unable to save themselves.
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